Thursday, October 30, 2025
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
A Mystery Love Letter to Ottawa: Guest Post by Mike Martin
A Capital Mystery is an anthology of 21 short stories that are all set and written in Ottawa, Canada’s capital city. The idea for such an anthology has been percolating for some time and finally brewed over into this new anthology featuring stories from well-known authors Barbara Fradkin and Brenda Chapman as well as rising star, Katie Tallo. But it was an also an opportunity for new and emerging writers to join the team. Some with their very first publishing credit.
The key to getting this project off the ground was eager and active support from Crime Writers of Canada who along with a local mystery writing group, Capital Crime Writers, agreed to sponsor and promote this anthology. There are stories from modern day Ottawa and others reaching back into the 1950’s. One goes all the way back to the 1800’s when Ottawa was called Bytown, a muddy hole in pre-Confederation Canada. The stories range from mild to dark to darker. There are department store owners, a famous Canadian hero, jilted lovers, and desperate people during desperate times. Even a weird ceramic polar bear enters the scene.
Early readers and reviewers have been impressed by the depth and quality of the stories. Melodie Campbell, the best-selling author of The Silent Film Star Murders said: “From clever whodunits to edge of seat thrillers, this anthology covers all the bases. Ottawa takes the stage front and centre in twenty-one crime stories by seasoned writers and fresh new voices. A historical mystery places us deftly into 19th century Bytown. Blackmailers and burglars terrorize our current day capital, and even the weather has a part to play.”
And Judy Penz Sheluk author and publisher of the Derringer-nominated Superior Shores Anthologies said: “This is a love letter to Ottawa, a city these writers call home, and they’ve done it proud. If you can only read one anthology this year, read this one. It would be a capital crime to miss it.”
A Capital Mystery was published by Ottawa Press and Publishing and available from Amazon all over the world.
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Mike Martin is the Co-editor of A Capital Mystery along with Bernadette Cox and the author of the Sgt. Windflower Mystery series.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
DOWN CEMETERY ROAD, Apple TV+ series based on a Mick Herron novel
This 8-episode thriller starts Wednesday, October 29 with two episodes, followed by new episodes every Wednesday through December 10.
Down Cemetery Road is adapted from by Mick Herron's novel of the same name. Herron is the CWA Diamond Dagger Award winner whose Slough House novels were adapted into the award winning Slow Horses series.
The storyline of Down Cemetery Road follows Thompson as a private investigator pulled out of near-retirement when a teenage girl vanishes from a quiet Oxford suburb. What begins as a domestic disappearance rapidly changes into a conspiracy rooted in the university’s inner sanctums — power, secrecy, old money, and the brutal machinery that protects them. Thompson is joined by Ruth Wilson, who plays a morally ambiguous academic with ties to the missing student.
Can't wait! More to come after I've seen the first two episodes. Let me know what you think, too!
Monday, October 27, 2025
The Grand prix de littérature policière 2025
Congratulations!
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Friday, October 24, 2025
LEFT COAST CRIME 2027: THE BIG CHILE!
Breaking News!
Left Coast Crime 2027 Location Chosen
The Big Chile Returns, the 37th Left Coast Crime convention, will be held April 1–4, 2027, at the Eldorado Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Santa Fe, New Mexico was recently selected as the #1 city in the U.S. in Travel + Leisure's 2025 World’s Best Awards and placed #2 in Condé Nast Traveler's 2025 Best Small Cities in the U.S.
More information and registration coming later this fall on The Big Chile Returns website.
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And, don't forget to register for Left Coast Crime 2026: San Francisco Schemin'
https://leftcoastcrime.org/2026/
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